JEDDAH: Police have arrested two youths in connection with an armed robbery and the rape of a Sri Lankan woman.
Jeddah police spokesman Col. Misfir Al-Juaid said the arrests were made after two men, a Saudi and a Jordanian, asked a Saudi taxi driver to take them to a secluded spot in southern Obhur before threatening him with a gun, tying him to a concrete barrier and taking his car, money and mobile phone.
The spokesman said the pair then went to the Al-Shatie market in the north where they picked up a Sri Lankan woman after convincing her that they were security men.
He said they took the woman to the same place where they left the taxi driver and raped her, taking her money before fleeing.
Al-Juaid said border guard patrols arrested the suspects and handed them over to police who are questioning them.
He said the woman, who had escaped from her sponsor, has been handed over to the Passport Department for deportation.
